"Participatory
local welfare, citizenship and third sector organizations. What is at stake?” (PART_WEL Conference)

Pisa
(Italy), 31st January - 1st February, 2013

Dear
colleagues, dear friends,

We are very pleased to announce the opening
of the registrations (HERE) of the International Conference "Participatory
local welfare, citizenship and third sector organizations. What is at stake?”
(PART_WEL Conference) that will be held in Pisa (Italy), 2013, January
31st - February 1st (Website HERE)

PART_WEL
Conference provides asignificant opportunity to discuss in an
international context aboutparticipation and its implications for
the welfare systems in times of crisis: theories, methods and
practices and institutional designs; planning, implementation and evaluation;
social conflicts, people acting and struggling; successes and failures;
etc.

The Conference will bring
together scholars, policy-makers, practitioners from all over the worldto
exchange views, practices and outcomes on the basis of various international
experiences, comparative researches and local case studies (See the Final
Program HERE)

PART_WEL
Conference will be structured along 3 Plenary Sessions and 2 Thematic Sessions.
Each Thematic Session will be composed by 6 Streams, each of which will host a
variable number of selected papers. The selected papers to be presented are
50.
The plenary sessions will host keynote lectures from leading Italian and
International speakers. The list of convenors includes the professors Ugo
Ascoli, Vando Borghi, Rik van Berkel, John Clarke, Laurent Fraisse,
Marisol Garcia, Yuri Kazepov, Veronica Lo Presti, Luigi Pellizzoni, Stefania
Sabatinelli, Nicoletta Stame.

Mutual feedback will be provided between
the plenary and the thematic sessions with the aim of making the conference a
thorough, cohesive and dynamic context of discussion (See the Final ProgramHERE).

Otherevents connected with the PART_WEL
Conference will be organized in the same days. Keep attention to the Website HERE

To submit the registration follow the instruction and fill in
the form at this pages here: